The film "Unchristened Days" by Ivo Trajkov is a visually sumptuous story

A scene from the movie "Unchristened Days"

The screening of the film "Unchristened Days" and the conversation with the Macedonian director Ivo Trajkov caused great interest among the audience at the opening of the 13th edition of the Philosophical Film Festival, which takes place from June 2 to 9 at the Cinematheque in Skopje.

The Macedonian premiere of the feature film "Unchristened Days" (the international title is "Piargy") by the eminent film director Ivo Trajkov took place at the opening of the 13th edition of the Philosophical Film Festival, on June 2 in the summer cinema "Mirno leto" at the Cinematheque in Skopje.

The film was made in a Slovak-Macedonian-Czech co-production and has so far participated in a number of international film festivals and won several awards, among others, at the festivals in Buenos Aires, Brussels, Montreal.

- I wanted the premiere in Macedonia to be something extraordinary. From that point of view, it seems to me that the very idea of ​​a philosophical film festival is something unique and beyond the borders of Macedonia. Philosophy is present in every film as an integral part of life. Some theosophical aspects also appear in this film - director Trajkov pointed out on the occasion of the festival premiere in a conversation with the audience after the screening of the film.

Director Ivo Trajkov in conversation with the festival audience

The visually sumptuous story is based on a short story by Slovak writer František Švantner, whose work in Slovak literature Trajkov placed in the genre of "magical realism" and compared it to the stories and significance that Zivko Chingo has in Macedonian literature. He even pointed out that the credit for receiving an invitation to shoot a film in Slovakia was due to the filming of his Macedonian film "The Big Water", where Slovakia is also among the co-producers.

The action in the movie "Unchristened Days" takes place in the small mountain village of Piarji just before the beginning of the Second World War. In the spring of 1939, the village was buried by a snow avalanche just a few days after the Antichrist was born.

The film impresses with its originality and rarity in its approach to the subject, which includes love, passion, hope, sin and punishment. Through brilliant black and white photography, Trajkov subtly and non-tendentially captures an atmosphere of historical drama and represents the hypocrisy of morality, religion and patriarchal tradition in society.

We will remind you, Ivo Trajkov is a Macedonian director, producer and screenwriter who lives in the Czech Republic and teaches at the prestigious FAMU film academy in Prague.

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